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Job Description
Start here. Grow here.
Are you ready to shape the future of the water industry? Our dynamic and multidisciplinary Water team is seeking an agile, client-centric, diligent and enterprising professional with water industry experience to take on the role of Deputy Client Account Manager for one of AECOM’s key strategic clients – Uisce Éireann.
About the Role
As Deputy Client Account Manager, you will support the Uisce Éireann Account Manager in managing one of AECOM’s most important client relationships. Acting as a key interface between Uisce Éireann and AECOM’s end markets and senior leadership, you will help guide our positioning, engagement and long-term partnership with the client.
Your role will involve supporting strategic engagement, identifying opportunities for growth, and ensuring AECOM continues to deliver value as a trusted partner.
Uisce Éireann is a strategic account for AECOM, with a significant cross-sector and interdisciplinary programme of opportunities and a strong future pipeline. This role will play an important part in delivering the objectives of our Water business while supporting continued growth in both the account and client relationship.
About Client Account Management at AECOM
Client Account Management is a systematic approach to managing and growing our most important client relationships. It focuses on maximising mutual value and achieving shared goals through trust-based partnerships.
By placing the client at the centre, we align our capabilities with their needs, developing a deep understanding of their priorities, challenges and long-term objectives. This approach enables AECOM to become an indispensable partner in delivering successful outcomes.
This role will be based in our brand-new Dublin City Centre office, with the flexibility to take advantage of our hybrid working model.
Here’s what you’ll do:
The role will involve supporting the Client Account Manager in:
Strategic Growth & Client Strategy
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Driving strategic growth and building on recent successes to position AECOM for upcoming opportunities during RC4 and beyond.
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Supporting the development and execution of client strategies that drive growth and long-term value.
Client Relationship & Stakeholder Management
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Driving the client relationship with genuine passion and interest.
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Working closely with clients and external stakeholders to identify and develop opportunities and deliver complex solutions.
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Effectively communicating with clients and a range of internal and external stakeholders.
Value Proposition & Opportunity Development
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Continual development of AECOM’s value proposition aligned with Uisce Éireann’s strategic goals and objectives.
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Translating client needs into supporting disciplines and end markets to create targeted strategies and proposals based on lessons learned and best practice.
Bid & Opportunity Management
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Collating, managing, and optimising bid collateral to ensure a consistent approach to clients in bidding.
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Engaging in governance decisions relating to selection processes, potential partners, and Go/No-Go decisions.
Governance & Risk Management
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Managing conflicts of interest across AECOM’s contracts and opportunities.
Data, Knowledge & Market Intelligence
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Ensuring the account is data-driven by maximising Salesforce and other digital tools for intelligence, communication, and client interactions.
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Implementing the knowledge management strategy to access tacit knowledge across delivery teams and business lines.
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Acting as a knowledge champion by acquiring, sharing, and applying knowledge through collaborative approaches.
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Developing and optimising knowledge platforms and facilitating knowledge-sharing sessions.
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Enhancing understanding of Uisce Éireann, the market, and the industry environment.
Come grow with us.
Become part of our dynamic Water business, which boasts around over 600 experts across the UK & Ireland. Collaborate with top-tier engineers and consultants from other practice areas across the wider business to deliver a variety of captivating projects, from small initiatives to large-scale ventures.
At AECOM, you’ll thrive in an inclusive and forward-thinking environment where your contributions are valued. And let's not forget about the perks! You'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customised to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, technical practice networks, AECOM University, volunteering days and our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle.
Qualifications
Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?
Here’s what we’re looking for:
We are looking for a candidate who is naturally inquisitive, a diverse and creative thinker with a demonstrable working knowledge of Uisce Éireann Core Values, Structure and Strategic Goals & Objectives, with knowledge of the regulatory environment in which our clients operate.
Demonstrated ability to build strong relationships and mutual trust with a range of stakeholders within client organisations.
Proven involvement in delivery of water industry projects across one of the following areas – Asset Management, Engineering Design, Environment, Programme/Project Management, Construction Management, Advisory.
You will be able to display the following behaviours:
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Credibility: be trusted to deliver; support the setting of aspirational but realistic targets; convene the Uisce Éireann account team around the account strategy to deliver the plan through agility, transparency and practical solutions.
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Competency: possess the right acumen, experience and track record; build alignment between client centric strategies and corporate targets; prioritise high-value and high-potential areas and align leaders around them
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Compatibility: be an active listener; fit in well with the client’s culture and understand their objectives; a natural passion and enthusiasm for driving mutually beneficial outcomes; build trust-based advisory relationships
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Consistency: delivers to the same high standard to become the client’s trusted advisor
We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us at [email protected]
At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives. If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you!
Additional Information
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For further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn – Anne Marie Flynn | LinkedIn
About AECOM
AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.
Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity
You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.
You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.
AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.
Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [email protected] if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
